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Show ! ! NAHTICAL :- :- ! I -: -: NOVELTIES i i The following "Nautical Novelties' are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-icruitinj Re-icruitinj Station at Salt. Lake City: j Due to the fact that "Navy Day,"j October 27Jh, falls on Sunday this, year, it will be observed Monday, : ( October 28th. Navy Day is the Unit-J ed States navy's day at home to all; people of the United States. All, , ships and stations are open for in-1 spection by the public and the navy invites everyone who wishes to visit the nearest naval activity. j President Wilson said: "A powerful power-ful navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of de-fense; de-fense; and it has always been of de-j fense that we thought, never of aggression ag-gression or conquest. . . Our ships are our natural bulwarks." I The visitor viewing the sights on board a modern man-o-war perceives that a battleship is not only a seagoing sea-going vessel and a floating fortress, but Is also a highly organized mobile city with trained executives and skilled skill-ed artisans in the many trades and occupations of cosmopolitan activity'. Modern national defense is closely related to the useful vocations of industrial in-dustrial life, and the carefully selected se-lected men who are trained in the naval service are a nationa.1 asset of-American of-American lile. i The United States navy is held ready at all times to render aid in case of disaster. No one can read the the shell they shoot, but the men be- hind the guns that makes America a free country. Forty young men from the inter-mountain inter-mountain region will be enlisted in j the United States navy through the Salt Lake recruiting station during the month of October. Thirty-six were enlisted in September. accounts of the Japanese and California Cali-fornia earthquakes without appreciating appre-ciating the great work the navy did there, and does in every major catastrophe. ca-tastrophe. The navy is an ever ready trained force to render aid to our own people or to our neighbors, in time of national calamity. ! In 1840 we had a navy of 7500 officers and enlisted men a mere patrol force. It was honestly believed that we' never would have another war. Since that time we have engaged engag-ed in four great was. Our present day navy consists of approximately 85,000 officers and enlisted men. The United States navy has had but four fleet actions, and in each one has captured or destroyed every enemy ship. No United States naval ship has ever been in the hands of mutineers, while in other navie3, whole squadrons and fleets have been in the hands of mutineers. J I It is not the guns, nor the size of |